Okay!
I talked to Job. It looks like they have no interest in easing the
transition for stragglers who are still announcing AS_SETs in their
AS_PATHs.
All AS_SETs should result in ASPA_INVALID.
I also just learned the Dutch have a saying... "soft doctors make wounds
stink".
Haha! Thanks
Hi Maria!
Interesting stuff! I suppose you could consider the different AS's in
the SET as "lateral" from each other on "the mountain".
It looks like the newest (aspa-19) wording of the standard demands that
you throw them all out as invalid anyway.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-i
Hello Ralph,
> Yes, "I have no providers" is a much more accurate description of AS 0. It
> can be used by tier 1 networks as well as people trying to depreciate their
> old ASN.
Well, yes, a deprecated ASN has also no providers, yet it can still be
(maliciously) placed into a valid AS path if i
